Jakarta – Nonbinary people have been making waves on social media this past week, thanks to the courage of a student at Hasanuddin University in Makassar, South Sulawesi, who openly dec

Markus You, Nabire – The process of uncovering the alleged gross human rights violations that took place in the Bloody Paniai case on December 8, 2014, has failed to reveal the senior o

Andra Nasrie – House of Representatives (DPR) Speaker Puan Maharani has given arguably her strongest hint yet that she would run for president in 2024, as she seeks to follow in the foo

Chris Barrett, Singapore – The Australian government has reversed a decision not to have an official government ceremony in Bali to mark 20 years since the terror bombings but will stag

Ryan Dagur – A court in Indonesia has rejected a petition filed by a district head in Papua asking it to dismiss a case against him in which he stands accused of corruption in a church

Jakarta – The city government demolished a street bump in North Jakarta on Thursday evening following reports that many motorcyclists crashed while riding at a normal speed over it thro

Basten Gokkon, Jakarta – Indonesia plans to expand protection of its seas to cover an area nearly the size of Germany by 2030 – and then tripling it by 2045.

Denpasar, Bali – The National Police on Thursday denied accusations of violence from the family of a Harvard University transgender activist who died after being arrested on his honeymo

Jakarta – There is a good reason why President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo did not make more of a meal out of Indonesia's rice self-sufficiency achievements over the past three years.

Dicky Kurniawan, Jakarta – Two major car manufacturers in Indonesia, Toyota and Honda, responded on the statement issued by the Phasing out Leaded Fuel Committee (KPBB), which stated th

M Rosseno Aji, Jakarta – The Indonesian Anticorruption Society (MAKI) reported an alleged smuggling attempt of toxic waste in the region of Riau.

With President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr scheduled to visit the neighboring countries of Singapore and Indonesia in September, Indonesia ambassador to the Philippines Agus Widjojo

Divya Karyza, Jakarta – Policymakers will seek to offset the effects of a planned increase in the subsidized price of Pertalite motor fuel with a bump in social assistance spending, a m

Marcelo Rochabrun, Lima – LGBT activists in Peru held a protest on Friday questioning how their government handled the death of a Peruvian transgender man in Indonesia earlier this mont

Dandy Koswaraputra (BenarNews) – Rohingya refugees living in Indonesia say they are growing more and more desperate as they struggle to get by in the face of an uncertain future, with t

A member of the Regional People's Representative Council (DPRD) in Palembang, South Sumatra may be booted out of his party and face criminal charges after he was filmed assaulting a wom

Jayapura – Public prosecutor Achmad Kobarubun made a response to the defense memorandum of the defendant's lawyer, the Papua Coalition of Law Enforcement and Human Rights, in the trial

Sorong – Due to heavy rains from Monday, August 22, 2022, until Tuesday morning, a landslide claimed two lives in Sorong City, West Papua Province.

A member of the House of Representatives (DPR) is calling for a divine solution to Indonesia's looming subsidized fuel crisis.

Stevani Wijaya, Jakarta – Disgraced police general Ferdy Sambo has submitted his resignation letter while awaiting trial as the suspected mastermind in the murder of a subordinate, Nati

Jakarta – Education, Culture, Research and Technology Minister Nadiem Makarim needs to immediately evaluate the university student admission system following the arrest of Lampung Unive

Fadhil Haidar Sulaeman, Jakarta – One of the strategic infrastructure projects in Indonesia, the capital's MRT North-South construction, succumbs to ballooning costs, mimicking similar

Jakarta – Indonesia's transportation officials have launched the "Train to Apocalypse," an impressive attraction featuring zombies in a dilapidated station.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indonesian police are investigating possible negligence in the death of a Chinese construction worker at the site of a controversial hydroelectric dam in t

We needn't worry too much about monkeypox, Indonesia's Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said, as the disease mostly causes unsavory cosmetic changes and not fatalities.

Liam Scott – New regulations and revisions introduced in Indonesia this summer will likely have a devastating impact on freedom of expression for all Indonesians, experts say, with the

Jayapura – Chairman of the Special Group of the Papua Legislative Council (DPRP) John NR Gobai said the central government should not be afraid or hesitant to establish a Human Rights C

Jayapura – Emanuel Gobay of the Papua Coalition for Law Enforcement and Human Rights, the legal counsel for the seven Morning Star raisers charged with treason, read out their defense m

Dwi Argo Santosa, Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – A low-ranking policeman accused of fatally shooting fellow officer Nofriansyah Yosua Hutabarat has been told by alleged mastermind Ferdy Sambo

Antara, Jakarta – Packaged sweetened drinks are flooding the market. The Health Ministry's Director of Non-Infectious Diseases Prevention and Control dr.

Lani Diana Wijaya, Jakarta – The Indonesian Employers Association (Apindo) objected to the Jakarta government's plan to regulate office working hours in the capital.

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Endy Bayuni, Jakarta – Indonesia can rightly be proud of its economic record, and thanks to the combination of its monetary and fiscal policies, the government of President Joko "Jokowi

Jakarta – The late president Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid once quipped that the only police figures he could trust for a non-compromised attitude were the fifth National Police chief Hoe

State-owned train company PT Kereta Api Indonesia (PT KAI) has filed a police complaint against a passenger after he was caught on camera defiling a female employee's religious attire.

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo denied that freedom of speech in the country is somewhat restricted under his rule and used his own experience to describe how

Claire Jiao and Grace Sihombing – Indonesia's central bank unexpectedly raised borrowing costs for the first time since 2018 as policy makers conceded that inflation pressures have rise

Wasisto Raharjo Jati – While travelling with colleagues to East Kalimantan to do fieldwork in the Indonesian capital city (IKN) in mid-July 2022, we collected 180 responses from people

Timor-Leste's president, Jose Ramos-Horta, has warned his nation will seek Chinese support if Australia and corporate giant Woodside Energy fail to back a gas pipeline between the resou

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo believes that the democratic climate in Indonesia at the moment is very liberal.

Dicky Kurniawan, Jakarta – The Metro Jaya Police on Tuesday said that Jakarta's traffic congestion has reached a level that is no longer sustainable and is uncomfortable to live by.

Antara, Jakarta – Floods struck Sorong City, West Papua following heavy rains from Monday until early today, August 23, 2022.

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo on Tuesday admitted that he struggled to get Russian leader Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Jakarta – Bank Indonesia, the country's central bank, has decided to raise the benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to 3.75 percent on Tuesday in a preemptive move to mitigate ris

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo on Tuesday reiterated Indonesia's plan to ban exports of raw mineral ores, including bauxites and tins, as the government se

Ilham Rian Pratama, Jakarta – Activists from the National Alliance for Criminal Code Reform held a lively protest during a socialisation event titled "Draft Criminal Code Kick Off" (RKU

Laurens Ikinia, Auckland – Governor Lukas Enembe of Indonesia's Melanesian province of Papua has expressed support for a call from the Papuan Student Association Oceania (PSAO) for a Ne

A university in Makassar, South Sulawesi has apologized to a freshman after faculty members discriminated against the student after they identified as non-binary.

Jakarta (Bloomberg) – Indonesia is set to investigate 13 cases of unresolved human rights violations from the Suharto era and possibly even earlier, marking an attempt by President Joko

Jakarta – Lawyer Yones Douw said that his clients, families of victims of the Bloody Paniai gross human rights violations were disappointed that the Attorney General's Office (AGO) only